Portrait de Femme, Nice, 1942

Portraits lie at the heart of Matisse’s work: with a few strokes of ink, he captures a face, a presence. This drawing was made in Nice, where the artist settled in 1917 and lived until his death in 1954. The light of the South deeply shaped his work, and it was there, in 1942, that he devoted himself intensely to drawing.The portrait is at the heart of Matisse’s work: in a few strokes of ink, it captures a face, a presence. This drawing was born in Nice, where the artist lived from 1917 until his death in 1954.

Medium

Ink and pen on paper, signed lower left

Dimensions

26.4 × 20 cm Framed: 49 × 43 cm26.4 × 20 cm Framed: 49 × 43 cm

Authentication

Certificate by Wanda de Guébriant, 2009

Provenance

David Nahmad CollectionSourced by Art.Private.

Value

€100,000